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Fairyhouse Winter Festival 2022 – Day 1
It was great to be able to reclaim what was once normality for the occupant of this seat by being able to get back to one of my favourite places on this old planet. All thanks to the kindness and understanding of my good lady. And it turned out to be a lucky day to […]
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Maria Kealy – Dunshaughlin & Royal Gaels GFC – RIP
I am absolutely stunned and devastated to have just learned of the passing of Maria Kealy. What an amazingly positive person. I truly cannot contemplate what her husband Micky Johnson, parents Pat, Ead and all of their family are going through, let alone how a Dunshaughlin team – managed by Maria’s brother Richie and including […]
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 3rd 2022
11.35: LARGY DEBUT – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.07: WHISKY LULLABY (JODY TOWNEND (3)/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.42: DANCING ON MY OWN – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.17: JOYEAUX MACHIN – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 1.52: AN MHI – W/O FAV – (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.27: THE FOUR SIXES (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) […]
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Good news stories and tough home truths
There are some occasions in sport – and other facets of life – when the form book can go out the window. Or at least that’s the way it used to be. With Irish sport anyway. Tonight at the World Cup though, the form book didn’t so much go out the window as into a […]
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Selections for Dundalk – Dec. 2nd 2022
5.00: NO SPEED LIMIT – EW – (ROB WHEARTY (7)/PAT MCKENNA) 5.30: NINTH LIFE – EW – (RORY CLEARY/MICK HALFORD) 6.00: FEDERAL (MIKEY SHEEHY/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.30: HAVANA PEARL – EW – (SAM EWING/MICK HALFORD) 7.00: SENOR CARROTTS (BILLY LEE/ANDY OLIVER) 7.30: CEALLACH (RONAN WHELAN/MICK HALFORD) 8.00: DARK STREET (NATHAN CROSSE/LUKE COMER) 8.30: TA NA LA […]
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Selections for Thurles – Dec. 1st 2022
12.32: TELLMESOMETHINGGIRL (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.02: FILON DOUDAIRIES (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/SHANE BRODERICK) 1.32: MOUNT IDA (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.02: INATENDUE (SIMON TORRENS/JOHN MCCONNELL) 2.32: LIBERTY DANCE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.02: ALI BABA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.32: THEFAITHFULINDIAN – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/AIDAN HOWARD)
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From the frying pan to the fire but not over the rainbow
Another week, another mess for a GAA referee to deal with. Consequently more bad press for the Association. Obviously, nobody – you’d hope – would deliberately start a ruckus, but the main talking points this week seem to be how these incidents are (a) dealt with and (b) reported on. Let’s deal with the second […]
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 30th 2022
2.00: DEN OF INIQUITY (MIKEY SHEEHY/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.30: LEABALAND – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/MARTIN LYNCH) 3.00: LECLERC (ADAM CAFFREY (7)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 3.30: NOT TOO REAL BAD (BILLY LEE/TOM MULLINS) 4.00: NO SPEED LIMIT (WAYNE LORDAN/PAT MCKENNA) 4.30: ROMAN SONG – EW – (LEIGH ROCHE/NOEL MEADE) 5.00: ENGAGEMENT RING (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.30: MADS BLACK EIGHTS […]
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Some of the big guns are going to be de-commissioned at the first hurdle
Holders Liverpool will begin the defence of their FA Cup title against a Wolves side currently languishing at the foot of the Premier League table. Jurgen Klopp’s side will no doubt be keen to construct a good run in the venerated old competition. Not only for the obvious reason that they are the holders thereof, […]
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Opening jousts in arrows action revealed
This writer is by no means a fan of Christmas. Even less so of the build up thereto. However, the only thing which makes the Festive Season even slightly more palatable is the abundance of sporting action that punctuates the end of December and early January. With a plethora of Soccer, Rugby, American Football and […]